I watched the sunrise, just thinking about the day ahead. I wondered what Emm was up to? I really hope I hadn't worried him too much. I feel so

terrible about leaving him right after he just got home and....

"Hey." he said to me in a sheepish voice as he rolled over to face me. Interrupting my unending train of worries.

"Morning." I replied not really knowing where to begin.

"Do you mind if I hop in the shower real quick? Ya know before we get all deep again?" he asked me in his usually Jake way.

"No, I should probably check my phone soon anyways. I am sure I have a lot of messages." I said as I rolled my eyes.

"Yeah, good luck with that." he said as he walked out of the room.

I was kind of dreading this. I turned my phone back on and waited for it to power up. That was probably the longest minute ever. All of a sudden

my phone started buzzing uncontrollably. Wow, 30 missed calls, 38 text messages, 10 voice mails. Amazing, Alice always knows how to go

overboard. Ugh, I had totally forgotten in my whole crisis mode clear my head moment that Jake would totally mess things up for me. There was

really no way to keep this a secret. Alice knew something was up. Almost every text is asking me what's going on, where am I? Who am I with? Am

I ok? Well, I guess she doesn't suspect me being with Jake. It's just general concern for disappearing from her site. Hah, go figure. I am sure the

idea won't even pop into her head. It probably seems far too unlikely for anyone to even guess. Emmett is worried too, this was what I am most

concerned with. I didn't know if I should reply or not. I couldn't lie to him, but I don't think he would understand the truth either.

"Any messages?" he asked stepping out of the bathroom.

"Yeah, about a million. Alice can't see me. She is freaking out." I said annoyed.

"Huh, oh yeah. Well, I guess the jigs up. Now Ness can freak out about you and me being together." he spat out dryly.

"Not exactly, she doesn't even suspect that. She is just more concerned. Guess all those years of loathing each other made it seem impossible

that we could be alone together without murdering one another." I said smiling.

"Uhm, years? Why the past tense?" He said as he winked at me.

"You know, I was just thinking about something. Now this is going to sound completely crazy, it probably is. I don't even know how I thought of it. God, this is weird." he rambled.

"Jake! Just spit it out." I said anxiously.

"So, I mean have you ever considered something like surrogacy? You know, Emms swimmers, an egg of someone who looks like you, in some chicks oven?" he asked obviously grossed out by using those words.

"Oh, yeah. You mean create another child like Nessie and just offer up some willing human as a donated oven? Because that wouldn't expose us at all? Or not to mention kill a human? What are you thinking?" I screeched.

" No. No. NO. That's not what I meant. Geeze, well I sort of thought you know since Nessie and her kind can obviously reproduce, that maybe it

would be possible to find another half human, half vamp woman willing to help you out. I mean it's a very big stretch, not to mention it would be

complicated. But I mean Carlisle knows both human and Vamp stuff, I mean surely you guys could make this work. I dunno, it's probably to scifi for

ya, huh?" he asked sheepishly.

I couldn't even reply to him. I couldn't think of words, all I knew was that my body took over and my brain shut down. I leaped up and tackled him.

He looked up at me scared and confused. I had the biggest smile on my face, it almost hurt. I started shaking him, laughing. He probably thought I

was crazy. Maybe I was, but it didn't matter. That's when he picked me up and spun me around. Smiling back at me this time.

Here it was, the hope I had been looking for all along. The answer to all of my prayers. Sure, it would be difficult to locate the South American Half

Vamp coven. Furthermore they could all say no, I mean they didn't owe me anything. But here it was, hope. Staring me right in the face, with a big

white toothy grin. Hope, shining through for the first time in almost a decade. It was like my whole world had suddenly changed. In this moment,

everything felt magical and possible. He was still holding me, smiling back laughing with me. He was just as lost in the moment as I was, it's like

happiness filled the room.

That's when everything suddenly took a turn. Before I knew it there was a set of very warm lips upon mine. Ferociously intertwining with mine, he

had one hand holding my head closer to him, tangled up in my hair. The other arm around my waist pulling me closer and if it were possible. What

was happening? What was he doing? What was I doing? Why couldn't I stop him?